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Population Roma population Roma % Note Otaci: town Ocnița: 6,043 3,148 52.09% Vulcănești: village Nisporeni: 1,224 1,057 86.36% Ursari: village Călărași: 285 233 81.75% Coroliovca: village Hîncești: 91 17 18.68% Soroca: town Soroca: 28,362 1,525 5% Often named "World capital of Romani people" [8] [9] Dealul Ţiganilor neighborhood is ...
In Europe, Roma are associated with poverty, high crime rates, and behavior that is considered antisocial or inappropriate by the rest of the European population. [326] Partly for this reason, discrimination against the Roma has continued to be practiced to the present day, [ 327 ] [ 328 ] although efforts are being made to address it.
There is a sizable Romani minority in Romania, known as Ţigani in Romanian and, recently, as Rromi, of 621,573 people or 3.3% of the total population (2011 census), although the Council of Europe estimates the figure to be 1.85 million people or 8.32% of the population. [127]
According to the last census from 2021, there were 67,179 persons counted as Romani people in Slovakia (Slovak: Rómovia na Slovensku), or 1.23% of the population. [1] However, the number of Roma is usually underreported, with estimates placing the Roma population at 7–11% of the population. Thus the actual number of Roma may be over half a ...
Romani people have been recorded in the United Kingdom since at least the early 16th century. There are estimated to be around 225,000 Romani people residing in the UK. This includes the Romanichal, Kale (Welsh Romani), Scottish Lowland Romani and a sizeable population of Roma from Central and Eastern Europe, who immigrated into the UK in the late 1990s/early 2000s and after EU expansion in 2004.
The preceding 1992 census recorded 313,396 Romani (3.7% of the population), while a secret backstage 1992 census ordered by the Ministry of Interior recorded a figure of 550,000 Romani (6.5% of the population); the Ministry of Interior ordered at least two other secret censuses to enumerate the Romani in denial, the one in 1980 recorded 523,519 ...
Roma largely maintain their own customs and traditions. Although a large number of Roma has adopted a sedentary and urban way of living, there are still settlements in some areas. The nomads at the settlements often differentiate themselves from the rest of the population. They number 200,000 according to the Greek government.
Linguistic evidence shows the Roma's emigration from Northwestern India to Europe, between the 3rd to 7th century AD, [16] and to Poland at around 1400. [9] Their emigration may be attributed to the surge in Roma killings during 1400–1500 in Western Europe, as Poland was relatively more welcoming.